{"id":344097,"date":"2026-07-18T01:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:02:54","slug":"missing-13-year-old-from-georgia-found-in-jacksonville-two-people-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344097\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 13-year-old from Georgia found in Jacksonville; two people arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were arrested Thursday night after <a data-ylk=\"slk:police say that;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1359812119614776&amp;set=a.507330388196291\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">police say that<\/a> they forcefully took a child across state lines into Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, July 16, police say that a woman, Giavonnie Carter, had approached a home in Baxley, Georgia, while holding a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After gaining entry to the home, police said that she and a man, identified as Johnathon Kelly, had &#8220;forcibly&#8221; taken her biological child from the home and into a vehicle. Shortly after, an <a data-ylk=\"slk:Amber Alert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;outcm:mb_qualified_link;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/amber-alert-issued-missing-13-190416770.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Alert<\/a> was issued, as police believed that she had crossed state lines and was in danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At around 9:30 p.m., the F.B.I Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office believed that they found Carter and Kelly&#8217;s vehicle at a hotel on Phillips Highway. A search warrant was issued and the child was found unharmed. Baxley police say that both Carter and Kelly were arrested at the hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carter is charged with kidnapping, home invasion, and aggravated assault, while Kelly is facing charges of kidnapping, home invasion and probation violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were arrested Thursday night after police say that they forcefully took a child across state lines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4047,141039,141040,1853,141037,116,118,117,45740,141038,117189],"class_list":["post-344097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-amber-alert","tag-baxley","tag-biological-child","tag-georgia","tag-giavonnie-carter","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriff39s-office","tag-johnathon-kelly","tag-phillips-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}